Accidental take-off of Victor Bob Prothero explains what happened.

Built to fly. Cant keep a good plane down.

In my opinion, he would has keep flying as the plane was already took off

I bet he felt an urge to select wheeels up and go for a ride! Rest in peece Sir!

So who got a royal bollocking for this?

Did you change your drawers before or after ass chewing commenced?

why not just kept flying ???

That flight was probably similar in time and distance to the Right brothers first flight!😊

Brilliant!!

If he was able to recover it this way it probably would have been safer to do a go around.

Helped clean this beauty last week. @Partridge Exterior Cleaning.

Thanks to Mr Hewes and Partridge Exterior Cleaning this beast is returning to a similar clean state after being stuck gathering green moss/mould for a while. Who knows what will happen after that, but there’s certainly positive activity. Well worth checking out their videos on it.

That Lady just wanted another fly...

Well done old chap.

Yeah, right! Aggressive and quick 15 degrees pitch up ... "Accidentally". Sure...

I understand that for a brief moment he considered trying to fly a circuit?

30s de classified aircraft

Would'nt it been safer to fly a circuit ?

The V-Force aeroplanes were truly iconic.

Why on earth did the co pilot freeze??? Had he never flown on one of these before?? Did he get a "Rocket" after this experience? What happened to him?

I was like woah oops and the comment of the onlooker at the hangar was hilarious ❤❤😂😂

The Victor did want one last flight.

Is it the ugliest aircraft?

Bet his co pilot was off his christmas card list that year 🙂

I hope you punched the co-pilot straight in the face after you landed bob.

The plane was obviously in quite airworthy condition so why not just go the extra mile and put it back in flying condition?

Does anyone believe this story? I think he took off on purpose. What does the other pilot (who supposedly "froze") have to say?

Makes you wonder what the CP was thinking about when he froze at the throttle controls?

What hapenned to your co-pilot

Magnificent !!!

По моему мнению красивый и никчёмный самолёт. Как и вся Англия.

She got to feel the feeling of the wind under her wings one last time

So did Bob put this one in his logbook?

What a great pilot BOB was even after 20 years of retirement he could have flown that beautiful aircraft of into the skies for one last time thank you for your service BOB RIP

l'avion le plus laid the ugliest plane

Just couldn’t resist getting those wheels off the ground one more time. Lol
Great airmanship, we’ll done.

Masonics out of control!!

Ah, you should have "accidentally" flown the circuit around to land.

Are we sure they didn’t do this purposefully 😂

Saddened to hear of the passing of Wing Commander Bob Prothero last month. Fly high sir.

One cool cat !

"The aircraft was actually flying" - Of course she was. Its where she belongs.💚

Yes, that all makes sense but really she just wanted off the ground again for a moment, hence being still so responsive to an experienced pilot when the time came. I love that Mr. Prothero still had the skills and the presence of mind and familiarity with her to react quickly and calmly, after nearly 30 years. A small thing, compared to some problems, but still shows he was the real deal at what he did.

The beast wanted to fly one more time, like the old times

Love the look of this aircraft , so sinister but beautiful

(Insert Anakin/Padme meme template)
Padme: Throttle down.
Anakin:
Padme: Throttle down?

Us mere mortals just love stuff like this.....He was a Victor pilot for a reason!!!!.....Well handled sir.

I supposed it's a given that he other bloke never got to be in the cockpit under power after that day

Чудовище а не самолёт ☝😈👎